Patents Examined by Vipin Patel
  • Patent number: 10036868
    Abstract: The lens barrel includes a lens housing barrel including a first barrel portion and a second barrel portion having a diameter smaller than that of the first barrel portion, an external barrel disposed at an outer circumference of the lens housing barrel and extending from an object side further than the first barrel portion to the second barrel portion, and a first elastic member disposed between the external barrel and the second barrel portion and elastically deformable with a movement of the external barrel with respect to the lens housing barrel due to an external force from the object side. The lens barrel further includes a second elastic member disposed between the external barrel and the first barrel portion and elastically deformable with a movement of the external barrel with respect to the lens housing barrel due to an external force from a radially outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Ochi
  • Patent number: 10025154
    Abstract: An electrically activated lens filter with an electro-optic portion having a radially and circumferentially symmetric electric field gradient is disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of the lens filter include an electro-optic portion having one or more conductive plugs arranged around a center region such that an electric field within the electro-optic portion varies from a maximum at an outer rim to a minimum outside of the center region. The lens filter may include a plurality of front electrodes and rear electrodes accessible in an axial direction for electrically activating front and rear transparent conductive layers, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey N. Gleason, Xingchao C. Yuan, Ryan J. Dunn, Linsen Bie, Xi Guo, Miodrag Scepanovic
  • Patent number: 10025008
    Abstract: In order to manufacture a lens array substrate including a multistage lens array which is formed on a translucent substrate, a first lens layer, a first translucent layer, a second lens layer, and a second translucent layer are stacked in order on a mother substrate. At the same time, a first metal layer is formed between the first lens layer and the first translucent layer, and in the removing of the first metal layer, the first metal layer is removed from a position overlapping with at least the center of a concavity in a plane view, and remains at least at an end portion of the mother substrate as a first buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 9977238
    Abstract: An intermediate image is formed inside a first prism, and an image light, which is reflected on the order of a third surface, a first surface and a second surface, is transmitted through the first surface and reaches the eyes of the observer, therefore it is possible to make the entire optical system small and light in weight by making the first prism thin, and realize a high performance display device with a wide angle of view. Further, when an external light is passed through, for example, the first surface and the third surface and observed, a diopter scale is set to approximately zero, and thereby reducing the defocus or distortion of the external light when observed in a see-through manner. And, it is possible such that the shape of the first prism conforms to the face of the observer, the center is also close to the face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Komatsu, Takahiro Totani, Takashi Takeda, Toshiaki Miyao, Masayuki Takagi
  • Patent number: 9977227
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a negative refractive power. At the time of zooming, distances between the lens units change, and a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a telephoto end is shorter than a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at a wide angle end, and an aperture stop is disposed on an image side of an image-side surface of the first lens unit, and on an object side of an image-side surface of the second lens unit, and the zoom lens satisfies the conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuteru Kawamura, Akiko Naito, Keitaro Yokoyama, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9977218
    Abstract: A lens driving device is provided, including: a holder member; a bobbin disposed at an inner side of the holder member; a magnet disposed at the holder member; a first coil unit disposed at the bobbin, and facing the magnet; a first support member coupled to the holder member and the bobbin; and a detection sensor disposed at the bobbin, and configured to detect magnetic force of the magnet, wherein the magnet includes a facing surface and an opposite surface disposed at an opposite side of the facing surface, wherein a polarity of the facing surface and a polarity of the opposite surface are different from each other, wherein a polarity of an upper portion of the facing surface and a polarity of a lower portion of the facing surface are different from each other. According to an embodiment, Hall output detected by the detection sensor can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jun Taek Lee
  • Patent number: 9977219
    Abstract: A lens actuating unit is provided. The lens actuating unit includes: a bobbin configured to accommodate a lens module at an inner side of the bobbin; a first coil unit disposed at the bobbin; a housing disposed at an outer side of the bobbin; and a magnet unit configured to move the first coil unit through electromagnetic interaction with the first coil unit, wherein the housing includes a hole formed by being recessed from an inner side to an outer side to accommodate the magnet unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Hong Cho, Sang Hee Lee, In Jae Yeo, Jin Suk Han
  • Patent number: 9964730
    Abstract: Mount assembly with a monolithic mount formed by a mount ring with a plurality of retaining arms with free ends and an element, which retaining arms are arranged concentrically around the axis of symmetry of the mount ring and extend at least partially in axial direction. Three of the retaining arms contact an end face formed at the element and hold the element axially, while the other retaining arms are bonded to a circumferential surface formed at the element and prevent the element in particular from rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: JENOPTIK Optical Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Erbe, Jan Werschnik
  • Patent number: 9958639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including, in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power and convexly formed at an object side surface; a second lens having positive (+) refractive power and concavely formed at an object side surface; and a third lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein the imaging lens meets a conditional expression of 1.6<ND3<1.7, where ND3 is a refractive index of the third lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Duk Keun Kwon
  • Patent number: 9952406
    Abstract: There is provided an optical system including: a first lens having positive refractive power and having a convex object-side surface; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power; a sixth lens having refractive power; and a seventh lens having negative refractive power and having a concave image-side surface, wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side, whereby an aberration improvement effect may be increased and a high degree of resolution may be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin Hwa Jung
  • Patent number: 9952430
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lever aseimatic reflection sheet device, which includes a base, a leverage board and a reflection sheet device. Elastic torque of a first elastic element is provided to force the reflection sheet to touch against the windshield W with the leverage board used as rotation center of the lever, so that the reflection sheet would not be affected by vibration of vehicle dashboard, to thereby improve fastening and supporting stability of the reflection sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: E-LEAD ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Stephen Chen
  • Patent number: 9927619
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure related to a head mounted display (HMD) that enable adjustment of lenses for a particular consumer. In some example embodiments, the HMD enables up to three-degrees of freedom of lens alignment with a consumer's pupils. For example, the HMD includes an actuation device or rotatable disc, both of which are in slidable engagement with at least one elongated members. Ends of the elongated members are coupled to a mirror/lens such that actuation of the actuation device or rotation of the disc translates the elongated member along an axis, which is in general alignment with a pupillary distance (PD) of the consumer. Additionally, the elongated members include mirror/lens interfaces to which the lenses are coupled. The mirror/lens interfaces are slidably and rotatably coupled to the elongated members thereby providing additional degrees of freedom for movement of the lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Yen-Sung Wang
  • Patent number: 9915805
    Abstract: A photographic objective lens includes a first lens (L1), a second lens (L2), a third lens (L3), a fourth lens (L4), a fifth lens (L5), a sixth lens (L6), and a seventh lens (L7), which are sequentially coaxially arranged along a propagation direction of incident light, wherein the first lens (L1) is a negative meniscus lens; the second lens (L2) is a drum lens; the third lens (L3) is a negative meniscus lens; the fourth lens (L4) is a drum lens; the fifth lens (L5) is a biconcave lens; the sixth lens (L6) is a positive meniscus lens; the seventh lens (L7) is a biconvex lens; the two curved surfaces of each lens are the light incidence surface and the light outgoing surface of the lens, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: HAN'S LASER TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiaying Li, Chaoming Zhou, Yunfeng Gao
  • Patent number: 9897793
    Abstract: A substrate for an electrowetting display device including a pixel electrode, a partition wall pattern and a water-repellent pattern. The pixel electrode is formed on a base substrate. The partition wall pattern is disposed along an edge of the pixel electrode to expose the pixel electrode. The water-repellent pattern is disposed at a space formed by the pixel electrode and the partition wall pattern to be extended along a lower portion of side surfaces of the partition wall pattern from an area on which the pixel electrode is formed. The water-repellent pattern exposes an upper portion of the side surfaces and an upper surface of the partition wall pattern. Thus, a manufacturing reliability of a substrate for an electrowetting display device is improved to prevent a display quality from being reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Bo Shim, Jin-Ho Ju, Dae Ho Kim, Sang-Il Kim, Sung-Kyun Park, Jae-Jin Lyu
  • Patent number: 9885458
    Abstract: A light funnel collimator has a central lens surface and a back reflecting surface, shaped to provide a wider background beam and a narrower hotspot beam within but off-center of the wider beam. One of the beams is on-axis of the collimator, and the other beam is off-axis. The reflector is at least partly asymmetrical relative to the axis, and provides or contributes to the off-axis beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Light Prescription Innovators, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Dross, Fernando Munoz
  • Patent number: 9874762
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention discloses an electrochromic grating, a display panel and a display device. The electrochromic grating comprises: a cathode, a first electrochromic layer, an ion transport layer, a second electrochromic layer and an anode arranged in a stack: Under an effect of a same electric field, materials of the first electrochromic layer and the second electrochromic layer have contrary light transmission properties in an oxidation state: and the materials of the first electrochromic layer and the second electrochromic layer have contrary light transmission properties in a reduction state That is the material of the first electrochromic layer in the oxidation state is a dark state, and the material of the second electrochromic layer in the reduction state is a dark state. Or the material of the first electrochromic layer in the reduction state is a dark state, and the material of the second electrochromic layer in the oxidation state is a dark state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changfeng Li, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenqing Zhao, Yingming Liu, Shengji Yang, Ming Yang, Mubing Li
  • Patent number: 9851569
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) device designed for quick and easy mounting and dismounting to and from, respectively, a mounting fixture comprises a display assembly and a chassis coupled to the display assembly. The display assembly includes optical elements configured to convey light to the eyes of a human user when the head-mounted display device is worn by the user. In certain embodiments introduced here, the chassis has an external surface and a fixture interface surface defined within, but not coplanar with, the external surface. The fixture interface surface is configured to mate with a device interface surface of the mounting fixture when the head-mounted display device is mounted to the mounting fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andriy Pletenetskyy, Bernard Schultz
  • Patent number: 9854140
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes an aperture stop and first to sixth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Han Chen, Hung-Chien Hsieh, Yu-Rony Wu
  • Patent number: 9851613
    Abstract: A variable aperture lens and methods of forming such lenses are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of the variable aperture lens include an electro-optic aperture sandwiched between a front lens and a rear lens along an optical axis. The front lens or the rear lens may include multiple lens layers having different optical properties to provide for a low z-height, optically aligned, variable aperture lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Hannah Dustan Noble, Iain Alexander McAllister
  • Patent number: 9829711
    Abstract: An inflatable headset system for virtual and augmented reality applications includes multiple inflatable segments that can be inflated or deflated with one or more valves. One inflatable segment either houses a dedicated display device or defines a receptacle for a mobile device. Another inflatable segment includes one or more lenses that are positioned to cooperate with the display of the display device or mobile device when the inflatable segments are at least partially inflated. Preferably, at least one of the inflatable segments has a shape that, when at least partially inflated, acts as a headset frame. The system may further include optional fasteners or straps, optional computer components, optional sensors, and optional input/output devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel Thurber, Michael Cornett